The emergence of managed care as a major factor in the delivery of health care has raised
concern about the resulting quality of care provided. This concern can be expressed purely …

The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (hereafter, the Council) of the American Medical
Association (AMA) recently published a report entitled “Ethical Issue in Managed Care.” 1 …

In their article, Steven Miles and Robert Koepp make a number of suggestions concerning
both the genesis and content of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs' report entitled …

in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for
stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients. Cost-effective medicine was the goal …

At the heart of ethics in medicine is a solid physician-patient relationship. Managed care has
operated to undercut this relationship. Rather than blaming managed care, however, one …

From the time the oath of Hippocrates is pledged until the time that the last patient is seen,
ethics plays a fundamental role in the practice of medicine. As physicians, we have always …

Much like American society as a whole, the bioethics community awakened slowly to the
realization that the delivery of healthcare has been profoundly altered by the growth of …

In their commentary on the recent report1 on the ethics of managed care by the American
Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Miles and Koepp2 offer …

In an insightful exchange on the topic of managed care and conflicts of interest, Robert Sade
(2002) and Baruch Brody (2002) differ on whether it is appropriate for physicians to practice …

Managed care has come to the fore in the medical landscape with such rapidity, vigor, and
nearly evangelical zeal that startled witnesses to the transformation have reacted with awe …